Cision

JANUARY 9, 2018

White Papers. Persuasive and authoritative, white papers remain vital to B2B marketers. Without a distribution method, spending hours writing and researching a high-quality white paper does not automatically translate to inbound leads. How to do it? How-To-Guides. How to do it?

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Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Nearly 100 percent of B2B buyers want content with more input from industry thought leaders, and white papers fulfill your target audience’s desire. It’s no surprise that t hree out of four buyers are most willing to share their contact information in exchange for your white paper. How-To-Guides.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 5, 2012

Thought leadership is widely practiced by organizations seeking to differentiate themselves from peer organizations, enhance their reputation and gain consistent coverage in targeted communication mechanisms. Characteristics of excellent thought leadership tend to be originality, boldness and worthiness (i.e. No Bible-bashing!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

If a CEO offers expert commentary – or a byline or guest blog post in a key media outlet, that content can earn valuable visibility and leadership positioning for the organization. PR as a lead generation machine. Earned media boosts SEO. What’s more, if the piece contains a link back to the company, it will boost its search ranking.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 20, 2019

While such content is meant to earn media coverage, PR pros also routinely create collateral for owned media like blog posts, white papers, social posts, and case studies. Leadership events. For a deeper dive on putting on stellar panels , see this earlier post. Speaking opportunities.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 20, 2021

B2B buyers looking for the best SaaS solution, for example, will review all collateral and communications, including analyst reviews, online explainer videos, customer reviews, case studies, white papers, etc. Awards wins can be another credible weapon to keep a company’s product or solution in the highest consideration set.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Different types of content in the form of press releases , bylined articles , white papers, and social media , among others, can help deliver key messages, amplify thought leadership and boost SEO for a particular brand. .

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Thought leadership is a common term in most B2B public relations programs. We examine these questions on behalf of clients and have a blueprint of sorts for developing and supporting thought leadership in a company executive or expert. But what does it really mean, and which qualities make a successful thought leader?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Although longer content like books, white papers, podcasts, eBooks, and video can take more time and effort than shorter bites, and it demands greater depth and creativity, it can prove very effective. In this age of short attention spans, it may seem counter-intuitive to champion long-form content for PR and marketing.

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Stern + Associates

AUGUST 13, 2014

Thought leadership is critical to brand differentiation and business growth – and core to effective communications strategies, particularly in today’s complex, crowded and commoditized world. Yet the sales community generally views thought leadership as a fancy name for marketing, outside their job to court new customers and close deals.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For example, program long-form content – ebook, report, white paper – every month, every other month, or every quarter. You develop a defined process for promoting it – from publication to measurement – and let the program run. Maybe your team can only handle one ebook a quarter. And that wasn’t my team’s only responsibility.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 23, 2017

One nearly surefire tactic for building thought leadership, creating quality content, and earning trade media coverage is a panel discussion event we call the business thought leadership panel. Hosted panels are generally thought leadership and branding opportunities. A panel could succeed with a few food stations.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 21, 2018

Yet it can yield real insights for inclusion in a thought leadership program for key executives. Data makes great thought leadership. The data-driven stories can be repurposed into various white papers, blog posts, and webinars, thus elevating the brand’s reputation as an industry authority.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 22, 2018

B2B can leverage trade outlet coverage by repurposing it into owned media, as well as in case studies, white papers, webinars, and pitches to bigger outlets. The pitching of bylines and interviews to trade publications is a cornerstone of a well-conceived thought-leadership plan. You get the best of both worlds.

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Cision

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Download our white paper. Sales leadership and marketing will have direct business outcomes information such as leads, opportunities and contract information. This isn’t just a problem for the PR industry, all business activities face the same struggle. It isn’t what you know to be true it is what you can prove.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Executives seek to amplify their own voices through “thought leadership.”. Speeches, white papers, blog posts and even tweets create expectations about an executive’s communication skills that must be met when they do live Facebook chats, meet customers or talk with employees. Find the 2018 Trust Barometer here.).

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Presspage

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A white paper on The Crisis Newsroom is also available upon request. The white paper offers key insights such as: Key checklists per phase, and Great case studies with very hands-on examples Receive your own copy via e-mail after filling out the form below.

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Stern + Associates

JANUARY 3, 2024

The beginning of a new year is a time when many consulting firms release annual research reports and other types of thought leadership on trends, challenges and solutions relevant to the vertical industries they serve. Why Is It Hard to Compete on Thought Leadership?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2019

For a larger brand, it can support a leadership position within a business category. PR tactics can deliver targeted educational content like expository videos, opinion pieces, or white papers — all valuable for a more serious customer. PR content offers depth, credibility. The interest or engagement phase comes next.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 28, 2017

At this phase, PR delivers targeted content like thought leadership articles, expository videos, opinion pieces, and white papers — all invaluable when it comes to enlightening and persuading. If they’re about to spend thousands on a company-wide SaaS solution for a business application, all bases will be covered.

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Cision

APRIL 11, 2015

As communication professionals in the business of content creation , we want to make sure we are consistently coming up with thought leadership pieces that will be helpful for our audiences. Use trending topics to get ideas for your blog posts or white papers. Writer’s block is the worst, no? How could it help your customers?

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Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

It’s fascinating to me just how many people in executive leadership have been resistant to these kinds of discussions. Public Relations Strategic Communications Content Content Marketing Game Changer Communications Jason Sprenger Leadership PR' What’s the right channel to use? What’s the right timing? Set the agenda. Guest Post PR 2.0

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 1, 2018

Contributed articles bylined by a key executive are part of any PR program that emphasizes thought leadership. Within a thought leadership campaign, B2B bylines should offer value to the reader. In general, a thought leadership piece is not an advertisement. How to prep and pitch a byline. Don’t be commercial.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Use some of the points to create a white paper or take the byline in a different direction for a different audience. Use coverage to demonstrate results to leadership. In a longer format, the piece becomes fodder for a talk at an upcoming conference.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 10, 2016

Thought leadership events. An excellent way to create quality content and gain exposure for a trendsetting company is a thought leadership event. In addition to opportunities for media to attend and cover such events, a savvy PR team will package the resulting content for white papers, bylines and other post-event coverage.

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Beyond PR

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

But what about thought leadership content like blog posts and white papers? There’s a place in product marketing for telling people what your product does; your thought leadership content isn’t that place. Ask these five questions to help plan effective thought leadership content for your product launch.

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Flack's Revenge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Knowing more about their R&D and tech chops can inform story-telling and thought leadership efforts and become part of the larger company narrative. PowerPoints, white papers and academic papers should be provided to those who want to dig deeper and really understand. All kinds of content can help.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 27, 2017

Find dynamic and interesting ways to display your thought leadership and draw traffic to your profile and website. A well-written white paper is effective no matter what kind of business you have, B2B or B2C. Have a differentiated point of view. . There’s no better way to stand out than developing a distinct point of view.

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Landis PR

MAY 8, 2023

Photo courtesy of Pixabay By Brianne Murphy Miller An important part of most strategic communications programs, thought leadership can help support an organization’s goals by using subject matter experts to provide information and commentary. This can include white papers, speeches, webinars, infographics, videos, blogs or social media posts.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 28, 2018

A good omnibus is a solid way to inform thought leadership content or to grab relevant data to attract media interest. We helped a credit-union client with a financial literacy platform team with a trade group to develop a national financial literacy study, white paper, and speaking tour.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 12, 2016

Some companies have been out of the limelight long enough to have missed the rise of “thought leadership” as a PR tool to building reputation. These speeches, presentations or other materials can have second and third lives as bylined articles, blog posts and white papers.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Along with other thought leadership initiatives , sharing educational content on a consistent basis helps establish the company as an authority in its industry. B2B PR teams work hard to produce informative owned content like case studies, white papers, blog posts, webinars, and ebooks.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Get our free influencer white paper today! By brainstorming the types of thought leadership or entertainment your brand can deliver to its audience, you’ll make it easy for a blogger to envision the benefits of working with your company. Learn how to keep bloggers loyal to your brand! Pinpoint Readers’ Pain Points.

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Stern + Associates

MARCH 10, 2023

Over the course of the conversation, they usually share a desire to build thought leadership, to secure more media coverage, and land more speaking invitations. A common hypothesis is that by cultivating thought leadership and getting more [PR] results, leads and business growth will follow. If only it were that simple.

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Cision

DECEMBER 22, 2015

You want to create visibility and thought leadership someone can ’ t duplicate. Get our free white paper today! All of these things will help you move forward and get you to where you want to be. And what you want to be is indispensable. You want to have a network someone can ’ t duplicate. Stay current.

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Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

Learn top tactics with Cision’s free white paper! Others refer to this as employee advocacy, and it can come in many forms to include thought leadership, customer support, social selling, etc. You can read a full white paper that I created on this topic called “ Employee Brand Storytelling.”.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2018

As with any PR or marketing campaign – leadership needs to know how it will impact the bottom line. Often a B2B marketer may think they are targeting CEOs with their content, only to find that it’s actually those who report into the C-level who read and vet things to put before leadership.

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